Installation view of "Raw Hide (The Deserts)" at The Neon Heater, now open. Image courtesy of the gallery.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

The Neon Heater embarked on their seventh year of programming this year. With the gusto we've come to expect from the determined midwestern gallery, this round of programming promises to be the most ambitious yet. This September,  Neon Heater opened the first chapter of a nine month narrative exhibition, called The Temperature. Unfolding at the gallery in Findlay, Ohio as well as multiple spaces around the country, The Temperature speaks to the socio-political climate of the (art) world. Chapter one sets the stage with The Setting, and along with the flagship group show in Ohio, four other spaces in Wisconsin, Georgia and Florida each opened exhibitions tied to the premise.

October will bring Cast of Characters, and with titles like The Rise of the Art World Super Villian (December) and Something Utopian (March), we are seriously looking forward to seeing the story develop throughout the next year. What's most exciting of all, perhaps, is the gallery's sincere effort to connect artists and spaces across the country via one unified exhibition.  What follows is an overview of the current and announced exhibitions, and The Rib will be following The Temperature closely; putting out features, interviews, resource articles, and more throughout the program.

-LLC

FROM THE GALLERY

In the fall of 2018, we will begin our seventh year of exhibitions, during which we will be trying something different. The Neon Heater’s role will shift to include the curation of all of the exhibitions this year to maximize the number of artists and spaces we can work with as well as the number of ideas we can explore. We're looking at these nine months (Sept '18 - May '19) as one long exhibition called "The Temperature". Using the context and aesthetics of the artists' work, we will take the temperature of the art world and the socio-political climate.

As current issues and recent elections have shifted the landscape, we ask: "who are we now, what is our role as artists?" With this year, we're hoping to provide an answer, or maybe better yet, ask a lot more questions. We want to create connections between artists and artworks, curating themed exhibitions using the ideas and signifiers that the work brings with it. To connect all of the exhibitions, we'll be creating a loose conceptual narrative that will unfold throughout the run of The Temperature. Aside from nine curated shows at the Neon Heater we are also partnering with a number of spaces around the country.  

At the moment we have lined up 29 shows for this season; traveling to Wisconsin, Georgia, Arkansas, Illinois, Vermont, Florida, Michigan, and Tennessee to create exhibitions that will expand the narrative and connect the gallery and artists to the larger artist-run community.

Installation view of "Different Registers" at Camayuhs, now open. Image courtesy of the gallery.

SEPTEMBER | The Setting
The Neon Heater (Findlay, OH)
Raw Hide (The Deserts)
Belleau + Churchill, Ben Schonberger, Christian Patterson, Ella Medicus, James Southard, Katie Hargrave, Stephanie Concepcion Ramirez, Whitney Goller

Usable Space (Milwaukee, WI)
When the Winters Were Still Really Cold (The Rhine)
Clint Sleeper, Misha Rabinovich, Wanda Sullivan,
PlantBot Genetics (Wendy DesChene & Jeff Schmuki), William Lamson

Southern Exposure Project Space (St. Augustine, FL)
Lines on a Map Mean little to Eyes in the Sky (Euphrates)
Brock Ailes, Fair Brane, Kaveh Baghdadchi, Liam O'Connor,
Sheida Soleimani, Tim Rietenbach

Camayuhs (Atlanta, GA)
Different Registers curated by GRIN
Caitlin MacBride, Sarah Tortora, Derrick Velasquez

Real Tinsel (Milwaukee, WI)
Truth & the Flood (Danube)
Agnes Thor, Andy Delany, Hannah Newman, Kyohei Abe

Hannah Newman from Truth & the Flood (Danube) at Real Tinsel.

Lines on a Map Mean little to Eyes in the Sky (Euphrates), Southern Exposure Project Space.

When the Winters Were Still Really Cold (The Rhine), Usable Space.

JANUARY | Love Story Pt. 2
The Neon Heater (Findlay, OH)

FEBRUARY | The Chess Club
Overnight Projects (Burlington, VT)
Snag Gallery (Seattle, WA)
The Provincial (Kaleva, MI)

MARCH | Something Utopian
The Blue House (Dayton, OH)
divisible (Dayton, OH)
H SPACE (Cleveland, OH)
Fiendish Plots (Lincoln, NE)
Traveling Performance to Moonville, OH

APRIL | Deaf Ears
Project 1612 (Peoria, IL)
Electric Shed (Nashville, TN)

MAY | Conclusion
The Neon Heater (Findlay, OH)

The Neon Heater is a contemporary art gallery in Findlay, Ohio by Ian Breidenbach, Emily Jay, Jordan Buschur, and Maria Iafelice. It opened in November of 2012, and has monthly exhibitions with a curatorial focus on conceptual and installation based works, contemporary photography, painting trends, video, and new media.

theneonheater.com

400 1/2 S Main St. Findlay, OH
Room 22, the second floor of the Historic Jones

Building Hours: Every Thursday, during scheduled exhibitions 5-7pm or by appointment.

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